Organized by the Laboratory of Music and
Communication in Infancy (LAMCI) of the Sociology and Musical Aesthetics
Research Centre (CESEM) at FCSH, the 2nd International Colloquium Arts for Childhood and Human Development was held in the Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation on the 22nd September. As part of the stated objectives
for the project, this colloquium had an original format given that the
participants could witness, using the closed-circuit television, the
presentation of various pieces of musical-theatre for Parents and babies. The
debates helped to support the idea that artistic participation and fulfilment
in childhood is important by drawing on real-time observation.